USMC 101174: Prior to and on Okinawa

Item Description
Title
USMC 101174: Prior to and on Okinawa

Citation information
USMC 101174: Prior to and on Okinawa. (1D-16-103; R-1-3.) United States Marine Corps Film Repository. Moving Image Research Collections. University of South Carolina.

USMC History Division inventory no
01/790

Marine Corps Library Number
0266-16

Additional identifiers
1D-16-103; R-1-3; V.2

MIRC inventory no.
USMC 101174

Decade
1940

Date
1945-02

Description
Shipboard activities aboard USS Burleigh (APA-55). Gun crew firing practice rounds, recreation, exercise, and officer briefing featuring General Pedro Del Valle, Col. Bare, Commodore J. G. Moyer, and Capt. Greenlee. Corpsmen train, and mail and underwater demo team is transferred to USS Burleigh, the 1st Marine Command ship. Cuts to men on Okinawa, resting, marching, and transferring supplies via bike and mule. One Japanese prisoner is captured.

Location(s)
Okinawa

Camera crew
Lundigan

Producing entity
United States Marine Corps (Production unit)

Genre
Conflict (combat)

Film date (note)
Filmed in February and March 1945.

Division
1st Division


Regiment
5th Marines


Battalion
3rd Battalion


Item collection
United States Marine Corps Film Repository

Original color
Color

Original audio
Silent

Original gauge
Film: 16mm

Original generation
Reversal: Positive

Original physical length
400

Original aspect ratio
1.37:1 (Academy)

Original media type
Motion pictures (visual works)

Language
English

Contributing organization
University of South Carolina. Moving Image Research Collections


Digital collection name
United States Marine Corps Films


Rights information
Public Domain. For further information please contact Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.

Digital media type
Moving Image

Date digital file created
02/21/2019

Digitization information
High definition access copy derived from a scan of a film original on a Digital Vision Goldeneye.

Digital runtime
12:47

Digital file type
video/H264

Keywords
World War II

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, description, catalog record, video